ACC Investigation
Governor claims to be working against corruption
(CNS): Governor Jane Owen has said she is “committed to working every day… to ensure that our jurisdiction operates to the highest international standards”. Owen made the comment in a press release from the Anti-Corruption Commission as it marked the United Nations International Anti-Corruption Day on Monday. However, the beleaguered commission continues to struggle with […]
ACC arrests West Bay woman in undisclosed probe
(CNS): Investigators from the Anti-Corruption Commission arrested a 34-year-old woman from West Ba on Thursday for two money laundering offences under the Proceeds of Crime Act. However, in keeping with the ACC’s tight-lipped approach to the work it does and the arrests it makes, officials have given no details of the investigation, the alleged offence […]
Four charged in drugs & guns import conspiracy
(CNS): Following a joint investigation conducted by the RCIPS and the Anti-Corruption Commission, a 32-year-old male civilian staffer with the police, a 33-year-old woman and a 43-year-old man, all from George Town, have been formally charged with conspiracy to import firearms and component parts of firearms, conspiracy to import ammunition, and conspiracy to import and […]
Two men arrested in ACC investigation
(CNS): Two men have been arrested by Anti-Corruption Commission investigators. Douglas Anthony Smith (48) of North Sound Estates and Shaun Michael Abshire Scott (24) of George Town have each been charged with three offences: conspiracy to commit fraud on the government, contrary to the Anti-Corruption Act, obtaining property by deception, contrary to the Penal Code, […]
19 summoned to court in ACC investigation
(CNS): Anti-Corruption Commission investigators have served 19 people with summons to appear in court, either for bribery of a public officer, contrary to section the Anti-Corruption Act, or unlawfully obtaining personal data, contrary to the Data Protection Act, or both. One man has also been summonsed for fraud on the government, contrary to the Anti-Corruption […]
ACC charges three men in mystery probe
(CNS): Marc Edward Chin (36), a former public officer from Newlands, Keron Leanard Watler (30) from East End and Shomar Peabo Bazil (28) from Lower Valley have all been charged with corruption-related offences following what officials from the Anti-Corruption Commission said were “complex and protracted investigations”. The men were charged on 15 July and are […]
ACC charges two men with deception, money laundering
(CNS): The Anti-Corruption Commission has charged two George Town men with a list of criminal offences in relation to an undisclosed, mysterious corruption probe that was described by investigators as “complex and protracted”. Maxwell Renal Linwood (46), a former public officer who, CNS has learned, was previously employed at the Department of Environmental Health, and […]
ACC to become a law enforcement agency
(CNS): Changes to the Anti-Corruption Act (2019 Revision), which are expected to go before parliament next month, will make the current team of Anti-Corruption Commission officers law enforcement agents. In the past, the commission’s investigators have worked with the police, but amendments to the bill will “confer additional powers”. The legislative amendment comes just over […]
